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A history of the Church in Red Deer
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Red Deer's third Sacred Heart Church is shown in the 1940s. At the right is Sacred Heart's first pastor, Father Henri Voisin. |
| 1905 | First Catholic Church in Red Deer built under supervision of Father Henri Voisin. Church blessed and dedicated to the Sacred Heart by Bishop Emile Legal on June 10, 1906. |
| 1907-08 | Priests of Ste. Marie (Tinchebray Fathers) move headquarters to Red Deer, purchasing property atop North Hill for convent, college, residence. The Montfort Sisters (Daughters of Wisdom) arrive in Red Deer in October 1908. |
| 1924 | Daughters of Wisdom purchase former college of Tinchebray Fathers in 1925. Renamed it Montfort School after their founder, St. Louis-Marie de Montfort. |
| 1925 | New church built near present site under supervision of Father J. MacDonald; dedicated to Sacred Heart by Bishop Henry Joseph O'Leary. |
| 1950 | Sacred Heart School opened. |
| 1951 | Sacred Heart CWL chartered March 14; Knights of Columbus, Sacred Heart Council 3408 chartered April 30. |
| 1959 | A new Sacred Heart church (fourth) constructed by Father R.B. Woodhouse; dedicated Aug. 19 by Archbishop Anthony Jordan. |
| 1964 | Red Deer gets a second parish to be known as St. Mary's. |
| 1968 | St. Mary's Church (official dedication Dec. 8); Mass was held in the St Thomas Aquinas School gym until church was completed. |
| 1986 | St. Vladimir (Ukrainian Catholic Parish) established by Bishop Demetrius Greschuk. |
| 1992 | Present Sacred Heart Church constructed by Msgr. Donald MacDonald; blessed and dedicated by Archbishop Joseph MacNeil in February. |
| 1992 | Present St. Vladimir Church constructed. |
| 2003 | St. Francis of Assisi (Lancaster Park) blessed by Archbishop Thomas Collins in October. |
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